The third of chapter 12’s claims, that permission decides where compute is built and on what terms, and that it moved in 2026 from a cost the builders paid to a race they could lose. See conversion. Chapter 12.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 12 — Cross-Examination
The book’s own thesis put on trial: five claims, each scored against the record and given a dated test that could prove it wrong.
Also discussed in
- Dated test Chapter 12, claim 3, a bargain kept
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Consent as a race.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent-as-a-race (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-consent-as-a-race-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Consent as a race}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent-as-a-race},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}